Eben Moglen’s Plone Conference keynote address Software and Community in the Early 21st century places free software in the context of historical desire for freedom and social justice, closing with “The difference is, this time, we win.” While Moglen’s focus is free software, everything he says applies equally to free culture. He uses the first…

Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine” 10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…

Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine” 10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…

Today, Creative Commons launches a brand new fundraising model: We’re becoming the first nonprofit organization to raise money through online video sharing. We’ve uploaded several of our short videos (which explain CC licenses and talk about how the Creative Commons project began) to Revver, an incredibly cool video-sharing platform that uses Creative Commons licenses to…

Creative Commons Launches 2nd Annual Fundraising Campaign San Francisco, USA — October 17, 2006 Creative Commons has just launched its 2nd Annual Fundraising Campaign. The second annual campaign features new support pages on the Creative Commons website which offer new swag including a new T-shirt design, new vinyl stickers and hipster CC buttons. In addition,…

So, with this email, Creative Commons launches its second (now officially) annual fundraising campaign. Last year, through the course of that first campaign, I wrote a series of letters explaining a bit about where Creative Commons came from, and where it was going. Those letters (creatively labeled “Lessig Letters”) are still available here. This year,…

San Francisco, USA – September 8, 2006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists along with the Creative Commons Developer Community released the ccHost 3.0 today. ccHost is an Open Source web-based media sharing software. This major feature release comes on the heals of winning the Linux Journal…

San Francisco, USA, Berlin, Germany, September 8, 2006 Creative Commons is pleased to announce that dropping knowledge, the not-for-profit initiative that offers a global knowledge portal and dialogue forum on its website will use Creative Commons’ licenses for its innovative online resource. On September 9, 2006, 112 creative thinkers, ranging from artists, writers and scientists…

San Francisco, CA, USA; Berlin, GERMANY; and Bogotá, Colombia — August 22, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon today announced the launch of its licenses in Colombia. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website. The…